This week, cloud operator Joyent learned a humbling lesson in data center management when an admin's mistake caused the company a major data outage. But it wasn't all bad news this week. Sony took the storage industry by storm with its record-breaking cassette tape that holds nearly 200 TB of data. These stories and more in this week's roundup:

To help organizations better understand the challenges of backup, disaster recovery and secure access, Acronis has created the "8 Noble Truths" of data protection. To view all 8 Noble Truths, please download the whitepaper. This is the second post in an eight-part series to help you protect your data:

The Acronis Disk Director suite of products quickly became one of our flagship solutions when it first launched 13 years ago. A significant amount of the deep technology that runs through all of our current data protection products originated from advances made to Disk Director.

As digital data production increases every year, so do the challenges associated with storing and securing that data. It's a lesson that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has learned the hard way. Amid the fallout from the Snowden leak, the agency has found how important it is to proactively instill sound data policies and processes. Here's a look at the top U.S. spy agency's revamped data protection policies, and other stories from around the Web this week: